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Wow my biphobia radar is picking up on some mildly bad vibes in this thread. I'd recommend toning it down a bit. If the story isn't a romantic one, yeah, you'd think bringing up that a character is bi is questionable... But so is bringing up that they're straight by that logic, no? If we can...

Is the dead dragon undead and sentient in a non-mind-controlled fashion? Unless all these conditions are fulfilled, don’t. If they are, use protection. The requirements are always gonna be sentience, ability to express non-coerced consent, sane of mind, and sexually mature. These are the four...

Honestly, if it passes the harkness test, you're good. A dragon that can telepathically communicate and give consent is probably a safe bet, a dragon that's closer to a big fire breathing dino isn't. #GoodMonsterfuckersRespectTheRulesOfConsent

Off the top of my head... Mermaids UK is a charity dedicated to helping transgender children and teenagers, and their families, by providing them with education on the topic and with financial help when needed. They're in a particularly hard spot lately because the US alt right is funding a wave...

Sounds interesting, but I literally just started another story on Ao3 and I don't want to split my attention... Too bad because I know exactly what I'd enter if I participated, dang :c (Also as if I'm gonna reach 45k words in 4 months. I'm a slow writer.)

links in signature, post new chapters in all my discord servers I know have readers of my stories, make a tweet, post a link on Reddit when my story is complete, and generally self promote the heck out of myself on all “hey folks promote yourselves in the replies of this tweet” and “I’m looking...

So far I’ve had a one story one document policy and it worked for me, but my current story has chapters three times as long as my usual average and I can see myself hit the lag threshold relatively quick - so I might create a new document every X chapters and put them all in the same folder.

I was surprised when I learned YA is for teens instead of 18~25, but it indeed is more for 12~17.

I mostly listen to video games soundtracks (and sometimes Beatles songs I know so well I can tune out the lyrics), and I do try to make them match the mood of the chapter I'm writing. Zelda for heroic stuff, Metroid for mystery, Kirby or Stardew Valley for calm or happy moments, for example.

When you start copy-pasting stuff directly from one work to yours. I wouldn't worry about "accidentally" taking the homage too far, stealing content is straight up just not something you can do unintentionally.

This is definitely just gonna be my two cents, but I would say don't try to force it. You'll find your writing voice by, well, writing - experiment with style and prose on short, one to three pages stories, and see what you do and don't like.

Blockchain is not a paysite. Blockchain isn't anything tangible. Blockchain literally just means "the info is stored on multiple computers at once, that way if one gets compromised we can easily cross-reference our database and make sure money didn't get stolen or added out of nowhere"...

I already have a fully decked out tip button and I sure as hell don't want a dumb ass cryptocurrency. Blockchain is one of those meaningless buzzwords that makes it so painfully obvious you have no damn clue how to even make a cryptocurrency, too. You can, if you want, suggest a points system...

A big thing that can make dialogues feel robotic is when all the characters talk the same way. I like to give my characters talking quirks. A habit, an accent, an odd choice of wording. the more distinct each character's voice is from one another, the less dialogue will feel like two plastic...

That's fair. I was only giving another possible example - the core of my advice remains "do your research".

Important to note PTSD is not the only mental disorder that can arise from trauma. There are many less known (or rather more drenched in pop-culture misinformation) ones such as DID (or in layman’s terms, multiple personalities/identities sharing the same body).* Symptoms of that one can...

Depends. Imho each conveys a different kind of character. As examples, I like to use present tense for characters that are more in-the-moment, use quick on their feet thinking, while past tense is for those that are more methodical, or see themselves as the main character of a story.

Depends on the needs of your story, really. Not all chapters need to be the same size necessarily.

It's really easy to give the 101 advice of "don't write Mary Sues nor its variants", but it's one always worth restating. There are technically ways to write "perfect" characters, but that requires realizing there's more than one way to be perfect - and then the character is less an unreachable...

this is something I've noticed as a queer af lady, but there really is a fetishization of/constant excuse making for abusive relationships by cis straight women, both in real life and in fictional stories (and I think that's the nature of the problem this thread tries to talk about). However...